Leah Gibbons

Titles

PhD Student, Sustainability, School of Sustainability

Biography

Leah has worked in the fields of sustainability consulting, green and natural building, restoration ecology, invasion biology, and holistic health coaching. She has started, developed, and run several businesses. She is currently a board member of EcoHeal, whose mission is to make natural, sustainable building cost competitive with conventional building and to show that it is healing for the environment and for people. She is also in the process of developing an ecological, sustainable community in Chapel Hill, NC.

Leah's research involves examining how socio-ecological systems can be designed, planned, and developed to be sustainable and what techniques and processes work best on which scales. She is especially interested in quantifying sustainability, ecological functioning, and ecosystem and human health in human settlements intentionally designed and built using explicitly socio-ecological principles and techniques.

2004

Simberloff, D. and L. V. Gibbons. 2004. Now you see them, now you don't! Population crashes of established introduced species. Biological Invasions 6(2):161-172. DOI: 10.1023/B:BINV.0000022133.49752.46. (link )

Posters

1997

Gibbons, L. V. 1997. Fluctuating asymmetry in scorpions on desert islands as an indicator of environmental stress. Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Presentations, September 1997, Vanderbilt University.